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Eurozine - The society of the query and the Googlization of our lives - Geert Lovink A tribute to Joseph Weizenbaum

Eurozine - The society of the query and the Googlization of our lives - Geert Lovink A tribute to Joseph Weizenbaum:

"Google suffers from data obesity and is indifferent to calls for careful preservation. It would be naive to demand cultural awareness. The prime objective of this cynical enterprise is to monitor user behaviour in order to sell traffic data and profiles to interested third parties. Google is not after the ownership of Emile Zola; its intention is to lure the Proust lover away from the archive. Whereas for the French, Balzac's collected works are the epiphany of French language and culture, for Google they are abstract data junk, a raw resource whose sole purpose it is to make profit. It remains an open question"